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One of UConn's largest and most vibrant departments, English is represented at five of our campuses. Approximately 400 undergraduates major in English alone, and our double majors also work with biology, economics, and psychology. More than 50 full-time faculty and 75 graduate students research the full global range of literature written in English from c.800 to the present. [ . . . ]

Why Study English?

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Come share your work in an informal, welcoming and constructive gathering with fellow writers--all genres welcome!!

Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold one writing retreat in the spring.

Come share your work in an informal, welcoming and constructive gathering with fellow writers--all genres welcome!!

Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold one writing retreat in the spring.

Based on her most recently published book, Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India (University of Minnesota Press), this presentation by the Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst explores the idea that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on womenâs biological ability to âreproduce the nation,â they are participating in a eugenic project â sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others.

Professor Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics â that is, improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics â is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism.

Asha Nadkarni received her B.A. in gender and womenâs studies from Connecticut College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminist theory, American empire studies, and Asian American studies, with an emphasis on the literatures and cultures of the South Asian Diaspora. She is working on a second book project, tentatively titled âFrom Opium to Outsourcing,â that focuses on representations of South Asian labor in a global context.

Free and open to the public, this event is sponsored by Asian/Asian American Studies Institute and Womenâs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Boston University Professor Alexandra Herzog will present âTransgender Identity and Homoerotic Anxiety in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Short Storiesâ on Thursday, February 2, 2017, at 12:30pm in the Dodd Research Center (room 162) as part of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Lifeâs Mittelman Faculty Colloquium Series. The discussion is open to all, and a kosher lunch will be served.

Professor Herzog will explore Isaac Bashevis Singer's treatment of transgender characters and his queer representation of gender performance and sexual identity. Using selected short stories, Dr. Herzog will argue that, while Singer is at ease writing about transgender identity, androgyny, and cross-dressing, he expresses real anxiety when it comes to same-sex relationships.

Alexandra Herzog specializes in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture, Yiddish Literature, American Studies, and Comparative Literature. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and teaches in the Core Curriculum and in Jewish Studies at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.

Spotlight

Ph.D. student Brian Sneeden’s first book, a collection of poems titled Last City, has been selected for the Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series, and will be published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in the fall of 2017. Founded in 1972, the Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series has published collections by several of the most distinguished figures in contemporary poetry, including Pulitzer […]